United States · Bill · S
S. 1864 (115th)
Affordable College Textbook Act
Introduced
26 September 2017
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Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6136-6137)
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Summary
Affordable College Textbook Act This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to make grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) to support projects that expand the use of open textbooks in order to achieve savings for students while maintaining or improving instruction and student learning outcomes. An open textbook is an educational resource that either resides in the public domain or has been released under an intellectual license that permits its free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with others.
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Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 26 September 2017
Introduced in Senate (PDF)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 26 September 2017
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 26 September 2017
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1864
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/115/s/1864